Are You Kidding Me!: Recent Episodes
Jamaal Careem and AbdulMatheen Yousuf
Are You Kidding Me! is a podcast dedicated to discussing and raising awareness of contemporary youth issues. Taking a journey through our various work with youth, social issues, and deciphering the uncertain future ahead of us. Are You Kidding Me! brings awareness to topics that are not often discussed but are pressing issues of our time.
Dr. Saeed Mubarak Kharbash AlMarri, Strategist and Innovation Accelerator at the Prime Minister's Office of the United Arab Emirates joins Jamaal for an amazing episode. Dr. Saeed gives us an insight into his life growing up in the UAE and tells us what values he stuck by that allowed him to get to the position he is currently in. He gives students an amazing framework of how to measure whether any opportunity, project, or endeavor is right for them.
Abdul Qadir joins AYKM once again. Across this episode, Jamaal & AQ talk about summertime, exam periods, work-life in general, and how as we grow up the concepts of what we are examined on change. Also, find sneak peeks into various hacks to help you on your exams!
The dynamic duo is back! AbdulMatheen and Jamaal talk about two ideas on how society works: Individualism and Collectivism. Should people focus on themselves or their communities? Is it okay to prioritize our success even if it is at the loss of someone else?
Today Jamaal hosts a very special guest who happens to be a childhood friend of his named Rashed. Rashed talks about his transformation from an addicted video gamer to a fitness and high performance coach and how it's all about the right mindset and establishing basic systems thinking in order to perform, whether that be in studies, fitness, sports and more. Rashed also talks about dieting and how it is not as simple as everyone thinks it is.
Are You Kidding Me! gets its first guest speaker Abdul Qadir Sathak. Abdul Qadir touches upon the aspect of a "Passion". He talks about why some of us have different passions at different stages of our life and how we rejuvenate a passion we may have lost.
It's Ramadan! Such a blessed time of the year! But also a time in which we need to be on our A-Game. In this episode Jamaal and AbdulMatheen discuss Ramadan and how to make the most out of it in terms of productivity, efficiency and family.
This episode explores the need for attentiveness to the mental wellbeing of youth and how nowadays more and more people are acknowledging it as a problem. Furthermore, Jamaal and AbdulMatheen talk about having a support system at home that is conducive to stable mental health and the importance of having a mentor figure to look up to and have one-on-one development sessions with.
In this episode, AbdulMatheen and Jamaal talk about how the current system was formed and what led to the standardization of education. Furthermore, they discuss alternatives to learning that is more appropriate for 2021.
This episode explores the different problems that youth face based on the survey conducted by Project You. Problems that stand out are discussed and briefly touched upon and Podcast's purpose is introduced.